Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to ...tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stic...k where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humour, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.... It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human empl...oyment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it do come to pass That any man turn ass,... Leaving his wealth and ease A stubborn will to please, Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame! Here shall he see Gross fools as he, And if he will come to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of th...ese little ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why runners make lousy communists. In a word, individuality. It's the one characteristic all runners, as different as they are, se...em to share.... Stick with it. Push yourself. Keep running. And you'll never lose that wonderful sense of individuality you now enjoy. Right, comrade?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a young man of Madras Who had a magnificent ass:... Not rounded and pink, As you probably think-- It was grey, had long ears, and ate grass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »